Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper, 1193, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
January 29, 2026 - January 29, 2026
Page Size: 263 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
226 Chetham (James)

The Angler's Vade Mecum: or, A Compendious,

1681 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
227 Edmonds (Harfield H.)

and Norman N. Lee. Brook and River Trouting,

Bradford 1916 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,757.68
228 Walton (Izaak)

and Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, [with] The Life of Isaac Walton by Thomas Zouch (1825),

1824 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,338.83
229 Halford (Frederic M.)

Dry Fly Entomology,

1897 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,987.04
230 Halford (Frederic M.)

Modern Development of the Dry Fly,

1910 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,338.83
231 West (Leonard)

The Natural Trout Fly and its Imitation,

St. Helens 1912 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,514.09
232

British Sports and Sportsmen

[1908-35]. GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,811.78
233 Lowther (Lancelot, 6th Earl of Lonsdale) and others, editors.

The Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games and Pastimes,

1929-[40]. GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 12,204.36
234 Munnings (Sir Alfred)

[The Autobiography],

1951-52 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
235 Rondelet (Guillaume)

Libri de piscibus marinis,

Lyon 1554-1555. GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,932.94
236 Olina (Giovanni Pietro)

Uccelliera overo discorso della natura e proprieta di diversi uccelli e in particolare di que' che cantano,

Rome 1622. GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
237

Highgrove Florilegium (The), Watercolours depicting Plants grown in the Garden at Highgrove,

2008 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 6,974.10
238 Meredith (Louisa Anne Twamley)

Some of My Bush Friends in Tasmania,

1860 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 614.68
239 Sowerby (James)

and James Edward Smith. English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants,

1790 -1814. GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,514.09
240 Sowerby (James)

Account Book for the years of 1805-6,

1805-6. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,230.63
241 Gerard (John)

The Herball or Generall Historie of Plants,

1633 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,493.52
242 Swammerdam (Jan)

Ephemeri Vita. Of afbeeldingh van 's Menschen Leven, Vertoont in de Wonderbaarlijcke en nooyt gehoorde Historie van het vliegent ende een-dagh-levent Haft of Oever-aas,

Amsterdam 1675. GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 2,459.99
243 [Apianus (Petrus)]

Cosmographiae introductio cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis,

[Venice] 1533. GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
244 Chanute (Octave Alexander)

Gliding Experiments, offprint from Journal of the Western Society of Engineers,

[Chicago 1897 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
245 Cauchy (Augustin-Louis)

Sur la Theorie de la Lumiere,

[?Budweis or Prague] August 1836 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 966.47
246 Lamarck (Jean-Baptiste de Monet de)

Recherches sur les Causes des Principaux Faits Physiques,

Paris [1794]. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
247 Darwin (Charles)

The Descent of Man,

1871 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,493.52
248 Darwin (Charles)

The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; The Descent of Man

1884; 1899 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 562.61
249 Hawking (Stephen).- Israelian (Garik) and Brian May, editors.

STARMUS: 50 Years of Man in Space,

2014; 2016 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,811.78
250 Herschel (Sir John F. W.)

Collection of 69 offprints,

[1813-50]. GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 26,152.56
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